Holacracy Community of Practice Archive

18 Topics

Role filler's right to abandon projects/actions unde...

01/12/2016

Hi everybody! Link Link is supposed to be able to prioritise the work of the circle. Though, role fillers can abandon any action/project they taken before. Can they simply discard project/action that lead link prioritised higher if they disagree with these priorities? I don't see any reason why t...

Where do personal preferences for accountabilities f...

01/12/2016

Suppose that in the governance meeting there is a proposal to add an accountability to a role. And the person filling this role doesn't like this new accountability. They could raise an objection, and say that since they don't like it, it is a reason why this new accountability creates a tension ...

Can anyone comment on this article about Zappos?

01/19/2016

Hello everyone! I've found this article recently, and I would like to know what's really going on there. If this article about some real issue, then the community definitely needs to learn about it. https://medium.com/the-future-of-work-is-flox/the-fatal-gap-between-organizational-theory-and-orga...

Process breakdown in an integration phase

01/12/2016

Hello everybody! Constitution says (3.5) that a facilitator can declare a process breakdown if the circle struggles long enough in integration. Then the facilitator gains the authority to judge the arguments for whether or not tension/objection is valid or not. I do understand that this is more l...

What to do when the team is not interested in improv...

02/03/2016

Hi! I've got a client, who is interested in Holacracy because he feels that it can improve his team's performance. The problem is the team doesn't seem to want to improve. At least, when he tried to facilitate a kind of a retrospective to surface problems and talk about possible improvements, the...

Reviewing metrics on a per project basis in tactical...

02/09/2016

Hi! Today we've tried to hold a tactical meeting for the trainings development circle. In that circle we have a bunch of projects, that are about conducting a specific training on a particular date. And within that circle all of the metrics are interesting to us on a per training basis. Like "Num...

Rep link when there is no broader circle

02/09/2016

Hi! We're trying Holacracy in one team that is a part of the broader organisation. So there is no broader circle, but there is broader organisation that influences how this team works. To me it makes sense to have a role like RepLink to protect this team's boundaries and to speak for this circle ...

Partners availability

02/16/2016

Hi! Lead Link of our circle is concerned that some Partners aren't available when they are supposed to. Like Sales person isn't answering incoming calls in the morning. And in general — we feel like it takes too long to get information when it's needed quick. In a traditional organisation we coul...

How many people leave after Holacracy adoption?

02/19/2016

Hi! I believe that Holacracy isn't for everyone and isn't for every company. I assume that when adopting Holacracy, there are people that decide to leave. Does anybody have the data on what percentage of people usually decide to leave the company after Holacracy adoption? Also, can anyone from H1...

Accountabilities to "get approval"

02/20/2016

Hi! Today during the simulation we've run into a situation where somebody during integration phase proposed to add an accountability to "create financial forecasts and get approval from Finance". The proposer and the objector agreed that it would resolve both original tension and objection. And t...

Can companies that don't create value use Holacracy?

02/20/2016

Hi! I may be wrong, but in my opinion Forex brokers don't create value, but rather they exploit people instincts to make money. And some of these companies might think they could use Holacracy to better operate. Taking into account that Holacracy is meant to be used by the purpose driven organisa...

Prioritisation duties

05/03/2016

Hi! Within Russian community we're trying to figure out why constitution only states prioritisation duties for the requests from fellow Circle Members. That's stated in section 4.1.3. To me it would make sense to replace "fellow Circle Members" with "partners". Is there a reason why it is limited...

Validity of objections that refer to how a person is...

11/07/2017

Hi! On one meeting a circle member raised an objection like that: "Because it won't be convenient for me personally to follow these rules, it will affect my performance in the roles I fill. I know that from experience". Does that sounds like a valid objection to you? I am a bit confused here, bec...

Compensation app examples

01/29/2018

Hi everyone! In a coach training someone mentioned a compensation app for Holacracy called "Stahrs". They said I can find it on google if I like. I tried and I couldn't :) The key idea in this app was that people would get a certain amount of stars, that they can give to other people, and then co...

Who represents the circle if both LL and RL are abse...

02/09/2018

Hi everyone! According to constitution, is there a rule that allows a circle to send a representative to a containing circle in case both LL and RL are absent? How do people usually manage that?

Policies for the domain delegated to a role filled b...

08/30/2018

Hi everyone! If there is a domain on a role which is filled by several partners, then how do they create and policies for that domain? If it was just one partner, it would have been single person decision. If it was a circle, it would be governance. But in case of one role and several partners — ...

Measuring adoption success

03/11/2019

Hi everyone! Are there any measures proving that adopting Holacracy improves business results? P.S. I'm sorry if it has been discussed before. I searched this forum for the answer, but haven't find anything.

Duty to track metrics

10/10/2017

Hi everyone! Constitution says everyone must track and report on the metrics assigned to their roles. What happens if tracking some metric requires to do a lot of work? Does the person having that role has to prioritise it over normal tasks? Or is it their own decision based on their best judgeme...

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Russia

01/12/2016

Hi!I'm from a company called ScrumTrek. We're based in Moscow. We've been exploring Holacracy since august, and we're planning to start our transition soon. I'd be happy to chat.

Where do personal preferences for accountabilities fit?

01/12/2016

Eric, that person could provide a reason "I won't be able to do it because I personally don't like it", and a facilitator don't have an authority to judge whether that's a good reason or not.

Checklist Items/Metrics Reported By Cross Link?

01/12/2016

I guess the answer is no. You cannot assign metrics or checklists to the linked circle, because linked circle isn't actually a role on a super circle. Similarly, you cannot change its purpose or accountabilities.

Does every role have a domain? Confused by Section 1.1

01/13/2016

Fred M. posted:Ok, I thought every role needed a name, purpose, and at least one accountability. Was that a change? Or has it always been that way?I'm not sure if that was changed, but that makes sense to me. You want a low barrier for creating a new role, otherwise people will just try to add st...

Does every role have a domain? Confused by Section 1.1

01/12/2016

Hi Fred!It says "one or more of the following", meaning that the role can have just one, and not all of these. There might be a role with just an accountability, and no domains or purpose. Or there could be a role with just a domain, and no accountabilities or purpose.So the answer is no, role do...

Can anyone comment on this article about Zappos?

01/20/2016

Karilen, that helps a lot! Thanks!

What to do when the team is not interested in improving

02/03/2016

Thanks for reply!In this case, selling is not the problem. Power holders want to try. But they have a very specific need — that is to engage employees in process improvement. And I'm afraid, Holacracy itself won't solve it for them.

Reviewing metrics on a per project basis in tactical meeting

02/11/2016

Margaux,thanks for clarification! That fully covers my question.

Reviewing metrics on a per project basis in tactical meeting

02/10/2016

Margaux,it helps, because it at least improves on our current understanding. This is partly question about the tooling, because GlassFrog doesn't support per project metrics in any way. And the way you do it seems good enough. Thanks for that!Another part of the question is about the order in whi...

Partners availability

02/17/2016

Christel Hofman posted:This is an interesting topic. We resolved it with peer evaluations. We decided in the governance meeting upon a procedure how to do this evaluation and what to do with the results. I don't know if this is according to the holacracy rules, but it works. Does this help you?T...

Partners availability

02/16/2016

Margaux posted:First question: what is the agreement between coworkers and the organization? Is their something explicite like a work contract or something?There are contracts, of course, but the working hours are not specified in it.Margaux posted:Then, second question: what role is dealing with...

Partners availability

02/18/2016

Christel,thanks for explanation. I think it might solve the problem for us, though maybe it will take some time.

Can companies that don't create value use Holacracy?

02/20/2016

Bernard Marie Chiquet posted:Hi Alexey,Interesting question! I don't know much about Forex brokers but let me give you one piece of my reflection re this subject. I do think such companies may succeed in adopting Holacracy because from my understanding Holacracy is neutral. These companies may, b...

Can companies that don't create value use Holacracy?

02/21/2016

Bernard,let me explain why I think these questions are connected. According to Spiral Dynamics theory, a company cannot skip the level of development. I don't know for sure, but I see similarities between spiral dynamics and integral model, on which Frederic Laloux book is based. So I think that ...

How to quickly process governance tensions

06/27/2016

rob thorpe posted:I agree with all points, and we in general are practicing in that way. My original intention was to discuss ways to make the async process work better in itself, perhaps by leveraging a tool like Slack. This is more of an experiment that likely a smaller sub-circle would use, no...

Validating a governance objection based on "overlapping accountabilities"

07/14/2016

Thank you for a brilliant case on why it is important that the only person who can validate the objection is the objector himself!

Duty to track metrics

11/07/2017

[@mention:549059653907130620], I guess it's similar to how metrics are assigned to roles. It's something that lead-link assigns, not something that circle accepts. In that sense metrics and checklists are not the same as projects and actions.

Compensation app examples

02/09/2018

Thanks, Brian, Awo! That's just what I needed